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Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year
01Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof
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Pappy Van Winkle 23 YearPappy Van Winkle 23 Year
whiskey

Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year

Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year

The Based Critic.

Pappy is not a bourbon you buy. It is a bourbon you are allocated, if someone at the distillery likes you. Twenty-three years in new charred oak turns the barrel into the master and the liquid into something that has no business being this composed. Leather, dried fruit, a finish that does not end so much as it retires. Blind tasters consistently pick $50 bottles against it. Pappy wins anyway, because scarcity is a flavor and this bottle has more of it than any other.
9.7/10
BASED
Price$2,500+
if you have the connection - and if you do, you already know.
Elijah Craig Barrel ProofElijah Craig Barrel Proof
whiskey

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof

The Based Critic.

Heaven Hill releases this three times a year and it is different every time - batch A, B, C, each its own proof, its own argument. Twelve years in the barrel, uncut. Dark cherry, charred wood, a proof that decides for you whether to add water. The bottle that beats $200 bourbons in blind tastings is not Pappy. It is this. It has been this for a decade. The market has not fully caught up yet.
9.4/10
BASED
Price$65
- in magnitude , because one won't cut it.
Yamazaki 12 YearYamazaki 12 Year
whiskey

Yamazaki 12 Year

Yamazaki 12 Year

The Based Critic.

Suntory built Japan's first distillery in 1923 in a valley where river mist does the aging . The 12 Year is mizunara, sherry, and bourbon cask all at once - a decision that should produce chaos and instead produces coherence: peach, coconut, a faint incense note that has no Western equivalent. Jim Murray called it the world's best whisky in 2015 and the price never recovered. It was better when nobody was paying attention.
9.2/10
BASED
Price$160
if you want to understand why the Japanese do everything correctly.
Wild Turkey Rare BreedWild Turkey Rare Breed
whiskey

Wild Turkey Rare Breed

Wild Turkey Rare Breed

The Based Critic.

Every prestige bourbon in America is trying to taste like this and charging four times more for the attempt. Barrel proof, uncut, unfiltered - what comes out of the barrel is what goes in the bottle. Jimmy Russell has been making it since 1954 and has not once asked for your opinion. The rye bite is absolute. The oak is bona fide. At $45 it is the most honest bottle on the shelf.
9.3/10
BASED
Price$45
because the best bourbon in the room never announces itself.
Blanton's Original Single BarrelBlanton's Original Single Barrel
whiskey

Blanton's Original Single Barrel

Blanton's Original Single Barrel

The Based Critic.

Blanton's invented the single barrel category in 1984 and has been coasting on that fact ever since. Retail is $65. Nobody pays retail. The bourbon itself is good - caramel, citrus, a round finish that does not challenge you. The stopper is a horse. People collect the stoppers. That is who is buying this bottle, and that is fine, because the liquid deserves better company than it gets.
8.6/10
BASED
Price$150+
at retail if you can find it, ignore it if you can't.
Ardbeg UigeadailArdbeg Uigeadail
whiskey

Ardbeg Uigeadail

Ardbeg Uigeadail

The Based Critic.

Islay peat smoke so thick you can smell it across the room before you pour it. Uigeadail - pronounced oog-a-dal, and worth learning - draws from a loch that has fed the distillery since 1815. Sherry cask maturation collides with the smoke and somehow neither wins: you get both, at full volume, simultaneously. It is the most confrontational dram in Scotland. The people who love it do not have a second favorite.
9.5/10
BASED
Price$80
if subtlety is something you respect in others but not in your glass.
Amrut FusionAmrut Fusion
whiskey

Amrut Fusion

Amrut Fusion

The Based Critic.

Bangalore sits at 3,000 feet and 35 degrees Celsius, which means the angel's share - the whisky lost to evaporation each year - runs at nearly 12%. Scotland loses 2%. What survives that climate is concentrated, fierce, and aged faster than any Scottish distillery would dare claim. Amrut Fusion blends Indian and Scottish peated barley and produces something that has no category, no precedent, and no patience for the people who dismissed it as a novelty in 2009.
9/10
BASED
Price$70
if heat is a flavor you want to taste.
Kavalan Solist Vinho BarriqueKavalan Solist Vinho Barrique
whiskey

Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique

Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique

The Based Critic.

Taiwan should not be able to make whisky like this. The humidity, the heat, the speed of maturation - every condition that Scottish distillers avoid, Kavalan has built a philosophy around. Vinho barrique means Portuguese wine casks, and the result is tropical fruit so vivid it reads as artificial until you realize it is just the climate expressing itself through oak. Won a blind tasting against Scotch in 2015 and the industry has been quietly uncomfortable ever since.
9.1/10
BASED
Price$120
if Scotland is the only answer you have ever been given
Redbreast 12 YearRedbreast 12 Year
whiskey

Redbreast 12 Year

Redbreast 12 Year

The Based Critic.

Single pot still Irish whiskey is a category that exists nowhere else on earth - unmalted barley in the mash gives it a creaminess that Scotch cannot replicate and bourbon does not attempt. Redbreast 12 is the entry point and also the argument: spiced orchard fruit, toasted wood, a texture that sits in the mouth like something that cost twice as much. Ireland invented whiskey. Then Scotland got the credit. Redbreast is the correction.
9.1/10
BASED
Price$65
if you think the most underrated thing in a category is usually the best thing in it.
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